V1 Editorial Director Matt Ball spoke with Suzette Kimball, USGS director, who has a PhD in environmental sciences with a specialty in coastal processes. The conversation touches on funding, sensing, mapping and public engagement.

John Goolgasian III is the Director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) Source Operations and Management Directorate, a position he has held since 2014. He has also served the NGA as Deputy Director of Source Operations and Management Directorate, Director of the Foundation GEOINT Group in Source, and the Director of the Office of Counterterrorism.

V1 Editorial Director Matt Ball spoke with Mladen Stojic, president of Hexagon Geospatial, about this transition and the IGNITE contest with significant prize money to spur developers to create applications using the platform.

Earth Imaging Journal’s Editorial Director Matt Ball spoke with Bronwyn Agrios, co-founder of Astro Digital, about the company’s creation of an online image-processing and distribution platform to send real-time alerts when satellite imagery is collected across an area to be monitored.

Earth Imaging Journal Editorial Director Matt Ball spoke with Jack Dangermond, founder and president of Esri, about the company’s many recent and soon-to-be-released offerings. The conversation ranged from the uptake of Story Maps and a new type of geo-journalism, the meaning of “smart” maps, easing field data collection with apps and the explosion of imagery.

Earth Imaging Journal Editorial Director Matt Ball recently spoke with James (Jimi) Crawford, founder and CEO, about the company’s processing power and its ability to provide actionable information to a diverse group of industries.

In 2014, Airbus Group restructured its Airbus Defence and Space division to focus on satellites, launchers, military aircraft and missile systems, considering those as areas of future growth. Earth Imaging Journal Editorial Director Matt Ball recently spoke with Bernhard Brenner, head of the Airbus Defence and Space Geo-Intelligence program line about these changes.